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Intellectual history, here decontextualized. Especially modern France, history of political thought, and socialism. And Kansas, because that's where I live "als Gelehrter, der durch Schriften zum eigentlichen Publikum, nämlich der Welt, spricht."

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That's a very cool idea!

28.01.2026 00:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I wonder if some of the disaster studies literature would do it. But I don't have a specific text to suggest.

28.01.2026 00:08 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
An African-American woman and man loading vegetables onto shelves in a food pantry. Volunteers Jamiela Taylor, left, and Tavion Melton worked to restock the produce section of the food pantry at NorthPoint Health and Wellness Center. Photo by David Pierini. From https://mynorthnews.org/stories/2025/10/30/need-a-hot-meal-or-groceries-for-your-family-we-have-a-growing-list-of-resources-in-minneapolis

An African-American woman and man loading vegetables onto shelves in a food pantry. Volunteers Jamiela Taylor, left, and Tavion Melton worked to restock the produce section of the food pantry at NorthPoint Health and Wellness Center. Photo by David Pierini. From https://mynorthnews.org/stories/2025/10/30/need-a-hot-meal-or-groceries-for-your-family-we-have-a-growing-list-of-resources-in-minneapolis

Am a French historian looking for good articles/books that discuss the origins of the social bonds that we are seeing in action in #Minneapolis. Doesn't have to be abt #Minnesota. Social structures that generate strong communities.
Historians? Sociologists? Political scientists?
#Skystorians

27.01.2026 23:36 — 👍 39    🔁 19    💬 13    📌 3

That's a win right there

26.01.2026 03:59 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

this is why 93 is better

26.01.2026 03:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Surprisingly there's still some left? It was a lighter beer to begin with

25.01.2026 23:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sharing this post from one of the awesome journalists from my hometown paper in PA to a wider #skystorians audience for replies 🗃️

25.01.2026 20:48 — 👍 12    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

Nope! Just...not right.

25.01.2026 23:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Welp, the beer in the garage froze into slush

25.01.2026 23:12 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Minneapolis : «Ils tuent en toute impunité». C'est la une de Libération lundi.

Le meurtre d’Alex Pretti, abattu samedi par des agents de la police aux frontières alors qu’il était immobilisé au sol, ravive la colère aux Etats-Unis. Récit de notre envoyé spécial sur la scène du meurtre.

25.01.2026 20:07 — 👍 229    🔁 137    💬 18    📌 16

A longboard has been leaned up against the wall in the hall where my office is for the past week. If it's still there on Monday, I'm going to put it in my office.

25.01.2026 20:59 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Industrial economies for lawyering! A silly B school story.

25.01.2026 04:43 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
times embracing so great a multitude, that it would almost seem as if numerous nations of them had sworn solemn league and covenant for mutual assistance and protection. To this aggregation of the Sperm Whale

times embracing so great a multitude, that it would almost seem as if numerous nations of them had sworn solemn league and covenant for mutual assistance and protection. To this aggregation of the Sperm Whale

A thing about this book is that it's aware that whales are intelligent and that we are murdering them in such great numbers as to transform their culture

25.01.2026 03:05 — 👍 17    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

This movie is a delight

25.01.2026 01:14 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

And in particular solidarity among dogs

25.01.2026 00:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

So good

25.01.2026 00:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The number of minutes spent on dogs barking at each other is fantastic

25.01.2026 00:21 — 👍 13    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

She is a convincing, an archetypal, villain

24.01.2026 23:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Gonna watch 101 Dalmatians

24.01.2026 23:32 — 👍 18    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 1

"All are born with halters round their necks"

24.01.2026 23:10 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Iran in Revolt | Kayhan Valadbaygi Deep political-economic transformations are causing recurrent waves of unrest, with no long-term solution in sight.

📣 My new article on Iran’s latest unrest for @phenomenalworld.bsky.social
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ira...

Iran has witnessed another wave of unrest beginning on 28 December—the fourth major uprising since 2017. (1/5)

22.01.2026 13:38 — 👍 22    🔁 15    💬 1    📌 2

Consensus reality feels like a quaint idea at this point.

24.01.2026 22:56 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Capitalism Without Humans As new technologies (not immigrants) replace human labor, "machine breaking" as a tactic of rebellion is taking on a renewed vitality.

Great essay from @sarahljaffe.bsky.social, including sections on AI and Taylorism, a connection that we also explore in some depth in 'Why We Fear AI'!

Laying bare how the Taylorist logic of making people replaceable ultimately leads to a system that treats people as disposable is crucial

23.01.2026 15:54 — 👍 27    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 1

Zelda doesn't do this! And it's part of why it's so good

23.01.2026 04:37 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The two of you are conspiring to bully me into biting an animal, and I won't do it

23.01.2026 04:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Context is usually less help than you think it will be

23.01.2026 04:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Altho this is an animal grown to chase and dismember and eat other animals, and I am not

23.01.2026 04:03 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1

I feel like this a lot of the time

23.01.2026 04:01 — 👍 16    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0

statistically its actually xenophobic to hate america

23.01.2026 03:13 — 👍 15    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

I will never do that. You can dress however you want but you will always be my baby girl

23.01.2026 02:56 — 👍 252    🔁 17    💬 3    📌 0

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